Silly I Know!

Timber Rufus Barkley

4 1/2 years earlier!

Saturday night as I was driving home from work I got a text from Ty - "Keep your eyes open for Timber he's gotten out again!" I didn't think much of it cause he's snuck out of the yard before and ALWAYS comes back a few hours later to the back door. This time he didn't! We've looked everywhere and called everyone we could and still no sign of our Timber. In my mind I'm picturing him on a "Bolt" like adventure (watch the movie if you don't know what I'm talking about!) But the reality that he's not coming back becomes more real as the days and nights SLOWLY go by.

As therapy to me and a tribute to the 4 years we had with Timber I thought I would "highlight" some facts/memories about him!

- Timber was born Sep 7, 2005 in Highland, UT

- He thought he was a human.....no seriously he did!

- He ALWAYS liked to sleep on my side of the bed!

- He was my protector! Even though he was more of a lover then fighter he always made me feel safe when Ty was working long hours.

- 1 week before we moved out of our first apartment he tore up the carpet in our room - all the way down through the pad! (ah memories!)

- His favorite toy was a small toy Snoopy!

- He was well traveled - he had been to Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah (all over), and New Mexico.

- He LOVED the snow!

- Cat's DID NOT like him at all! ;)

- He was Ty and I's first born!

- I would always joke about making Beagle Soup out of him- just to see what my nephews would say! Worked everytime!

- Thing I'll miss the most - Lazy afternoon naps with him and how he would always warm my feet up! :)

If any one in Utah happens to see him - PLEASE let us know! :o)

Our Neck Of The Woods

Hello all! Time has just flown by - so before any more of it gets past me I thought that I would post some pic's and show everyone what we have been up to. For some reason I have been really lazy about taking pic's - I know I really need to get better at it! But here are a few snapshots I did take! We took Dylan bowling for the first time a few weeks back! He had a lot of fun and came in 2nd place. I can in first (don't know how that happened) and then Ty was 3rd!

Dylan had the eye of the Tiger and was getting strikes if not spares almost every time!

He would always watch the bowling ball till it hit the pins - then he would start running around! He was having way too much fun!

We also raced a few times! It was a great night!

Then a little while later my sister Heather's Great Dane had puppies - 12 to be exact!

I want to say that these are some of the puppies when they were just a couple of weeks old. Their eyes were still closed and all they wanted to do was sleep!

Dylan had tons of fun holding them and kissing them! :) They'll be ready for new homes here in a few weeks -so if anyone is interested just let me know!

Then just the other night we took the kids to Jumping Jacks - just down the road from us. It is a place that has lots of air filled jumpy toys that kids can run on/jump on/slide down - till they are tired! We needed to burn some energy off of Dylan so we thought it would do the job - and it did! Ty and I had to take turns running around with him - but in the end his cheeks were pink - he had sweat dripping down his brow - and he was asleep by the time we left the parking lot!
I think this was the only time he stopped jumping!

Gager and Mommy hanging out! (Gavin was sleeping - hence no pic's of him!)

I love this last pic of Dylan coming down the slide!

All in all we've been having fun along with working hard! Ty and I have been truly blessed with great kids that seem to be changing every day, and that are so fun to hang out with! If any of you are in our neck of the woods we would LOVE to drag you along and have some fun!